"The Eleventh Hour," a collection of short stories and a novella, is the first fiction Salman Rushdie has published since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him. He talks with Martha Teichner about ...

Free expression, courage and Salman Rushdie all go together. The generational fiction writer lived for decades under a death sentence and survived a stabbing attack in 2022. Now, Rushdie’s pen ...

How do you write about Salman Rushdie? He has transcended literature—a terrible fate for any writer—and become a symbol, a standard-bearer for free speech. Except when his speech irritates, as it ...

Authors’ late works tend to arrive burdened with expectations that have little to do with their actual scale. They are read for summation, for wisdom, for signs of closure. The two books considered ...

Salman Rushdie recently turned up at a McNally Johnson bookstore near South Street Seaport in Manhattan. "It's actually not particularly close to where I live, but I come here a lot," he said. He was ...